A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On March 8, 1917, protests against food ...

Less than 200 years after Nicholas’s death, Emperor Theodosius II decreed that the Saint Nicholas Church would be built over the church he served, and his remains were relocated to the building.

Marco Polo (1254--1324) is likely the most famous merchant who ever lived. Even small children know his name, thanks to the ...

Today is the 94th anniversary of the murders of Tsar Nicholas, the last monarch of Russia, and his family at the hands of the Bolsheviks. I had never thought much about this crime, nor of the ...

Nicholas Romanov, fifty years of age, late Tsar of All the Russias ... forces pouring into the trenches and massing before Saint-Mihiel, the German High Staff prepared for that supreme drive ...

Originally conceived in the mid-1800s to honor Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich (who died in Nice), the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral wasn't completed until the early 20th century.

With Tsar Nicholas away at the front commanding Russia's war effort, the capital, St. Petersburg (then called Petrograd), was left in Aleksandra's hands. Her "spiritual adviser" was the Siberian ...

Writing in the 1930s, Princess Catherine Radziwill, a member of an old noble Russian family, claims the Tsar sent Nicholas to Asia to break up his relationship with his mistress, Mathilde Kschessinska ...

Russian state TV hails 'Putin the Emperor' in delusional diatribe after chilling speech ...

That last tsar, Nicholas II, ruled an empire that bordered ... for a royal burial in 1998 in the Peter and Paul fortress in St. Petersburg. The relationship of Nicholas II and Alexandra, their ...